Espionage, treason at heart of new thriller | The Biblio File
Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to dbarnett99@me.com. Columns archived at https://barnetto.substack.com
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Key themes from a Swiss theologian’s career | The Biblio File
Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to dbarnett99@me.com. Columns archived at https://barnetto.substack.com
Community, friendship found in Middle Earth | The Biblio File
“I’m of the mind,” writes Chico author Matthew Distefano, “that we can never not desire; and we will never be not mimetic. The question, then, becomes ‘to whom will we look to...
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‘Sometimes the Soul Needs Chocolate: Pandemic Odes’ | The Biblio File
While “Hospitals turn the dying away,” the poet finds some measure of relief in camping. As so many suffer, there comes an almost guilty question: “Can I briefly claim the...
Author searches for rootedness | The Biblio File
In 1988, she found herself on staff at Wilbur Hot Springs in Williams where she discovered a love of writing. What happened in between is told in a quirky and...
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A nod to ‘Healthy Young Children, Sixth Edition’ | The Biblio File
Though it’s a textbook for early learning professionals, “Healthy Young Children, Sixth Edition” ($62 in paperback from The National Association for the Education of Young Children, naeyc.org; also for Amazon...
Teacher collects 45 years of poetry | The Biblio File
Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to dbarnett99@me.com. Columns archived at https://barnetto.substack.com
Narrative brings abolitionist’s family to light | The Biblio File
In 1833, John Brown married Mary Ann Day, just seventeen. In the first two decades of their marriage, writes Wilbert Phay, “she bore him thirteen children. ... Of these, seven...
Novel imagines meetings between two monarchs | The Biblio File
Red Bluff novelist William Wong Foey, who earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Chico State in 1973, mixes fact and fiction in his eighth novel.
Widow reinvents herself on motorcycle journey | The Biblio File
What Linda Crill needed, she found, was not a patch but a whole new way of approaching the world. And it turned out to involve a Harley, a group of...